A company identified as B shared personal data of its hotel
guests without their consent with its parent in 2011, Macau’s
Office for Personal Data Protection said on its website. The
company is Wynn Macau, Will Wong, a press officer at the Macau
Government Information Bureau, said in an e-mail today.
Katharine Liu, a spokeswoman for Wynn Macau, declined to comment
on the fine.

The information was used in an investigation into whether
an executive at the parent company broke anti-bribery laws in
the country where it’s registered, the Macau privacy office
said. The data included customer relationships and entertainment
expenses, and involved officials from another country, the
office said. The data transfer violated Macau’s Personal Data
Protection Act, it said.

The fine comes amid a legal battle between Wynn Resorts and
Kazuo Okada, its former vice-chairman and co-founder. The casino
operator has accused Okada of extending gifts and cash to Asian
casino regulators in violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act, an allegation the 70-year-old billionaire denied.

Wynn Resorts has accused Okada of making improper payments
to officials in the Philippines, calling him unsuitable as a
controlling shareholder and forcibly redeeming a 20 percent
stake that he held in the casino operator. Okada is challenging
the forced sale, which took place at a discount.

Okada, chairman of Tokyo-based pachinko-machine maker
Universal Entertainment Corp., helped Steve Wynn finance the
casino operator that went public in October 2002 and was its
largest individual shareholder until last February. Wynn Macau
has lost 1.9 percent this year, according to data compiled by
Bloomberg.